The BizTalk Filter Finder tool has been updated and is now more powerful. Thanks to the contributions of Michał Plutyński, this new version introduces several useful enhancements. For those unfamiliar with the tool, BizTalk Filter Finder helps simplify the analysis and maintenance of solutions that rely on content‑based and context‑based routing.In addition, it supports scenarios… Read More »

I received my first Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award on January 1st, 2011, in the BizTalk Server category. At that time, I joined a global community of technical experts and community leaders who actively share real‑world, high‑quality knowledge with other professionals and with Microsoft. Since then, my journey in the MVP program has continued… Read More »

In the second post of this series, we follow a simple walkthrough explaining the basic principles to create a flat-file schema from a file delimited by symbols. Now it’s time to do the same thing, but this time, translating an inbound positional flat file. A positional flat file is normally a file that has fields… Read More »

Following one of my last speaking engagements in Porto.Data Community Meeting about Flat Files: How to process Flat Files documents (TXT, CSV …) in BizTalk Server, where I address some of the following topics: I decided to return to writing about this topic on my blog, a topic that I already wrote about in the past,… Read More »

I know this is old stuff, but sometimes we find customers with solutions running in older versions of BizTalk that need to be fixed or improved while the client is studying the possibility of migrating this project to newer versions of BizTalk Server. After the challenge of putting my BizTalk Server 2004 development machine running… Read More »

BizTalk Server includes a powerful publish/subscribe mechanism for messaging applications that work by creating and filling subscriptions, which provides a highly efficient and scalable platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications. The BizTalk ESB Toolkit extends the functionality of BizTalk Server to provide a range of new capabilities focused on building robust, connected, service-oriented applications that… Read More »

Exciting news… there’s a new release of “BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack” with new functoids, but before talking about them, there is another subject that I want to talk about first… I finally opened this project to other community members, and the first person that I invited and gladly accepted my invitation was my good friend… Read More »

I just released a new version of the BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack project (available on GitHub) with a new set of functoids for BizTalk Server 2010 (I will soon publish for older versions). Project Description BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack is a set of libraries with several useful functoids to include and use it in a map,… Read More »

It’s an exciting time for the BizTalk community! As I mentioned back in March, one of the most anticipated study resources is finally here. To celebrate, I am hosting a giveaway for two copies of the (MCTS): Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) Certification Guide, courtesy of Packt Publishing, and for the first time, one of… Read More »